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Saturday, October 15, 2005

My absolute favourite film of all time is Romero's 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead. I must have seen it at least 50 times, and I own 4 copies, as well as the soundtrack, the script, the novel, the board game, the comics and the t-shirt (really).I bore people with endless facts while they are trying to watch it. I point out mistakes and continuity errors and cuts and say things like "Oooh, this is a good bit" and "Look! Look! There's George Romero" and "Look! There's George Romero's wife!" and I tell them about the time I shook Ken Foree's giant hand at a nerd convention.Hell, I should probably marry this movie. I love everything about it - the characters, the library music/Italian prog rock soundtrack, the setting, the story and (of course!) the zombies. I love it because underneath all that cheesy comic-book action, gore and slapstick humour lies an insightful and thought provoking subtext of class war, conformity and consumerism.Zombies, eh? They're us, and we're them. When the worst comes to the worst what we should really fear is ourselves, and each other. I think that's what Jerry Springer was really trying to say.All of which serves as a very lengthy introduction to my latest completed project. A knitted homage to Dawn of the Dead.

I have had zombie nightmares for many years because of Dawn of the Dead. The comercials for the remake would cause me to flee the room before they could infect my subconcious. However, my best friend is a freak for DotD and I feel obligated to request patterns for she would just die of delight if I made one of these for her. Perhaps, it will also help me heal...

Hi - someone on LiveJournal linked to your iPod cover and I noticed that you're in Oxford. Do you know about the Borders knitting group? Saturdays, 11am-1pm, in the sofa corner at the Starbucks there. Do pop along if that's convenient for you!

You are brilliant!! My husband is obcessed with DOTH (to the point where he has the zombie head from the poster tattooed on the top of his hand), and with my knitting 'problem' (I can't sit still and not knit), its like the marriage of our two worlds. I would PAY for the patterns . . . So cool!!

Awesome - Genius Grade Stuff here and I wuz in NYC for the first show as a Zombie....just knit a shopping mall and you are all set. Go out and buy an XBox-360 and get Dead Rising when its released. Trust Me on this...

Stuff one full of catnip and watch Fluffy do to zombie what zombie did to human. They would look great on a Christmas Tree of the Dead, too! You should market your talent. Thar's money in them thar zombies!

you shook ken foree's hand, huh? that's awesome. did you know he played keenan's dad on the keenan and kel show? you probably did.i recently discovered this movie. some friends of mine suggested it for movie night. i had already seen the remake, which i thought was awesome. but when i saw this, i realized how terrible the remake was in comparison. the characters in this movie are sensational people, each with their own seperate force on screen. they were a real pleasure to watch. i also enjoyed the cheap makeup. often times, too much makeup results in a greasy and deteriorated look that's definately professional, but is just too typical. the makeup in this movie gives you a feeling that these were all actual people at one time. although they are zombies now, you can look at them and see the human they once were and not just a greasy monster. my favorite scene in this movie was the scene after rodger had just been bitten and he is in the car with peter. rodger is bandaging his leg while peter tells him they must get rid of it. while they talk, you can tellthat they are both on the verge of crying. this movie has a lot to offer and i think everybody should watch it at least once.i think that your puppets are very detailed. some would say that you have a lot of time on your hands,but that can be a good thing a lot of the time. i often have a lot of time on my hands, and i seem to have many good ideas in these times!